Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024

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Appointment of persons to rank of Assistant Garda Commissioner or chief superintendent

47. (1) The Garda Commissioner may, following a selection competition undertaken for that purpose by the Service, appoint, with the approval of the Board, and in accordance with such matters as may be contained in regulations in relation to such appointments, persons to the rank of Assistant Garda Commissioner or chief superintendent.

(2) A person who, on the coming into operation of this section, holds the office of Assistant Garda Commissioner or chief superintendent, shall be deemed to have been appointed under this section and shall continue in office in accordance with—

(a) this Act,

(b) the regulations, and

(c) to the extent to which the terms and conditions of his or her appointment under the Act of 2005 are not inconsistent with this Act or the regulations, those terms and conditions.